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A Modern Conception of Socialism
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MODERN THOUGHT
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1 / 1989 |
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Vadim Medvedev
Vadim Medvedev was recently appointed the CPSU Central
Committee's secretary in charge of ideology. |
Urgent problems of the development of socialism during the present stage and its growing role in peaceful social progress and in the historical destinies of mankind are being discussed at an International Scientific Congress that opened in Moscow on October 4. Outstanding representatives of the social sciences of the socialist countries are taking part in its work.
P.N. Fedoseev, vice president of the USSR Academy of Sciences, opened the meeting of the scholars.
The conference was addressed by V.A. Medvedev, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee and secretary of the CPSU Central committee. On behalf of the CPSU Central Committee, he welcomed the participants of the scientific forum and wished them fruitful work.
In history there come periods from time to time, the speaker said, when the necessity of a serious reinterpretation of the attained goals of social development and its further prospects arises. Hardly anyone doubts that socialism is confronted with a new historic challenge and requires a profound qualitative renewal and increased dynamism. This does not detract from the achievements of the new social order.
At the same time, it is well known that negative trends have begun to manifest themselves increasingly distinctly since the end of the 1970s. The advantages of socialism over capitalism in economic growth rates turned out to be lost. A lag in new spheres of development began to appear. It goes without saying that not all socialist countries found themselves in the same position. But if we bear in mind the
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